I spend more time fighting the targeting UI than I do fighting opponents

I love the way it work i use target nearest or next enamy and also have auto target closest enamy works fine for me i own in pvp !

as a melee, normally I disable any auto targeting. So I'm fumbling the keys anyways. Auto targeting has gotten me into more trouble than it's worth. I'm sure most will know the 'skill enables combat' too. TOR seems to combine the two. When I first saw this, 'What the heck happened?' LOL! For instance, If I have nothing targeted but I'm in range of a mob with force charge (leap attack for sith warrior), All I have to do is hit Force Charge. This will auto target and activate the skill. Weeeee!

Deselect your target by clicking terrain is another options. Very nice to clear your target fast. But this can also mess ya up if you mis-click a button say. PoooF! There goes the target. LOL! Definitely a 'Oh No!' in the middle of all things.

Though I think the lack of Target of Target is more game breaking and obvious, I fully agree with your sentiment.

I've requested UI improvements several times (beta and live), all I've gotten from the Devs are bug reports and suggestions closed without resolution and character name change requirements. I guess that's where the game's critical priorities lie.

I just don't understand how the awful tab-target system even made it through alpha...and I really don't understand how this isn't something they would rush to fix, considering how targeting is the most important part of the combat.

It's not clear to me that target-of-target will really be all that useful in PvP, when you can't actually even target the first target correctly to begin with, and when there's not a macro system to support [@targettarget] casting like WoW had (and this game badly needs).

Sigh.

Shameless bump because this is a huge, huge problem in the game. Everyone I talk to agrees that tab-targeting in SWTOR is the worst implementation of targeting in any game they've ever seen, but no one seems interested in talking about it on these forums.

It is seriously impossible to target people accurately, and it is killing the ability to react quickly and efficiently in PvP situations.

Yeah I hate the tab targeting. It was bad in beta, then they changed it, which made it even worse. This is the current version we have now. I would like the old one back D:. I don't want to have to manually click something because its more than like 10m away.

Wait...I did not know that they actually changed in it beta!

And yet they managed to make it worse, huh? Wow.

What I don't understand is why the tab-target doesn't prefer people IN FRONT OF YOU.

Agreed, when I am facing an opponent and in melee range, and try to tab target them to no avail, it is very frustrating.